FROM RAGS TO RIO ...

This will be the last poetry book I write for a few years, over the past few years I have wrote an entire lifetime of memories, and now i think its finally time to chase new dreams and to start making some new memories … It will also give me more time to concentrate on the publishing side of things and other projects.. – due to be published March 2015

MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE *new poem*

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It was music that saved my life, Whilst some songs reminded me how to love, other lyrics helped heal my broken heart;It was a simple melody that gave me the courage to face the end,But it was a song that reminded me how to rewind time back to the start

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During my lowest time music had become my only friend,I was living in hell and my dreams had been set on fire;I would hear lyrics whispering me words of hope, like when Kanye West sung “Through the wire”

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I guess my life had become just a simple lyric written softly on a blank page;I use to sit in the shadows watching that spotlight shining brightly on the stage

I spent so many days silently comparing my life to the clouds, Some days they were dark, whilst other days they would be so white;Slowly this music had developed into a voice that sung me a lullaby each and every single night

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When I heard the country and western style of Don Williams I would be reminded of my Mum;But I was off the rails and out of control, and if the truth be told I was a pathetic excuse for a son

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Just like Drake I started from the bottom but now I am finally here;But back then I had more than 21 questions, but an answer never did appear

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Music had turned into a way for me to escape my reality, after endless nights were spent listening to Tupac Shakur;Bob Dylan taught me to believe in angels, when he sung about “Knocking on heaven’s door”

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Frank Sinatra would try to tell me to live my life “My Way”;John Lennon may have been a dreamer, but when I heard him sing “Imagine” deep down I always knew what he was trying to say

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Michael Jackson said to make a change I must first start with the “Man in the mirror”:So I wiped away the condensation, and when I saw my broken reflection I started to see things so much clearer

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These verses stopped me from falling, if it wasn’t for those lost lyrics I would probably be dead, or at best be in a darkened prison cell;These verses gave me the courage to break free and fly, Just like a “Bat out of hell”

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For me music is more than simple lyrics being whispered, I listen inbetween the words and found a best friend;It was a simple melody that gave me the inspiration to face the start,But it was a song that reminded me how to look forward to the end
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LOOK BACK

*new poem 2013* taken from “TO HELL & BACK”

Sometimes to move life forwards you must first of all look back;As I close my eyes I pick up this pen, before the world around me goes black

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My memories become my dreams, as this dark ink floods down through the night;I am back to being a 5 year old boy who is still learning how to write

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Twisted blurs of memories bring me a mixture of happiness and grief;I use to steal my school friends toys, so I may have only been 6 years old but I was already labelled a thief

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My life was like a game of snakes and ladders, sometimes I was climbing up, but sometimes I took a wrong turn and I slipped right back down to the start;A few times I thought I was a boy in love, But really I was just a boy with a broken heart

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For years I treated this concrete jungle like my neverland, my friends were all lost boys whilst I acted like Peter Pan;I thought I was unbreakable, but my world fell apart when I had to somehow say goodbye to my Nan

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I fell off the rails, whilst judges decided on my future I sat in a police cell staring at the dark grey wall;I was living my life on the edge, and just like a leaf in Autumn I was getting ready to fall

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I wasn’t very fast at running so I always struggled to keep up with the rest;One day I nearly died when some b0y decided to stab a knife straight into my chest

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So many nights were spent drowning my sorrows, leaving empty bottles to roll across the floor;The nights early hours were spent in a green haze listening to lyrics written by Tupac Shakur

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Support workers talk about me behind closed doors, just as another friend becomes just another star in our skies;I remember thinking as I saw him decomposing on the floor this world is going to be full of goodbyes

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I started to lock myself away from the world outside, which left me with a microwave meal for Christmas dinner;I was so close to giving up but I kept crawling forwards, as I always thought I was destined to be a winner

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I was lost with no direction, so I looked up to the stars and whispered“If anyone can hear me then please give me the courage to fly”;Just then this piece of paper and a pen floated down to me from the sky

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So now that piece of paper has become my pillow, as the pen wrote down verses that slowly pushed my life back on track;Sometimes to move life forwards you must first of all look back...

“No matter how bad your past may have been, be grateful…It made you who you are today stronger, wiser and more importantly still ALIVE”

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Front & Back covers for my own final poetry book FROM RAGS TO RIO ... This will be the last poetry book I write for a few years, over the past few years I have wrote an entire lifetime of memories, and now i think its finally time to chase new dreams and to start […]

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